Here are my comments in regards to running out of memory on
a trip and a solution to transferring the files to free up
the memory cards.

Sometime ago my wife and I spent seven weeks traveling all
over the UK: London, Bath, the Cotswolds, Cardiff and a bit
of Wales, the Lake District, Glasgow, Edinburgh, the
Scottish Highlands and back to London. Then we spent a dream
week in Paris and returned home.

I found it took time to find a place, be it an internet café
or photo shop, to upload image files onto their compute &
then burn CDs plus the time consumed doing the task & the
cost. Most internet cafes exist to surf the web, word
processing or playing games & do not have the equipment or
will not permit it due to fear of copy write law. At least
that was experience at that time. Internet café time has to
be considered along with their charge for a fee to burn a CD
and sometimes they charged me for a CD, even though I
brought my own. Sometimes they used mine and sometimes would
not use mine.

The one time I went to one of the well know Jessop's photo
shop chain in Cardiff, I had to upload all six 128MB cards
on a kiosk at their location which was not near my B&B. This
took considerable time. My wife was extremely unhappy when I
finally got back to the car. Worse yet, the job wasn't
complete when I returned later in the afternoon. Something
"malfunctioned" with their computer and one or two cards did
not get burned to CDs. I had to do it all over again and
come back later. This time my wife blew up, with good
reason.

If you decide to go this route, to be safe, you need to burn
second back up CD just in case the original is lost or
damaged in shipment. This adds additional time for packaging
and shipping the CD back home along with the cost. It steals
time from the vacation.

Many of the areas we explored were very rural and of course
had no internet cafes, so I found myself being forces to
delete images to regain space on cards. I hate working that
way. It took time away from the vacation of seeing things
and spending quality time with my wife. I observed many
other tourists doing the same thing when we stopped for a
coffee break. Give me a break! A real one!

For such a long trip, memory demands sufficient cards, which
can be an initial large investment.

A solution to burning CDs along the trip can be eliminated
by purchasing a Memory Bank. There are many different brands
and versions available. Here are a few: Delkin efilm
PicturePad and a clone by Nivue. They have 40GB hard drives.
The one I like is the FlashTrax offered by SmartDisk. It has
a 3.5" color LCD screen and either a 40 or 80GB hard drive
and can accommodate MP3 audio files, video and data files.
With the advent of larger megapixel camera, this is the only
ay to go if you are gone on a long tip and shoot many
pictures.